Today Cosina started the worldwide shipment of the 10,5mm Nokton lens. You can get it in Europe at [shoplink 53816 ebay]FotoMundus (Click here)[/shoplink] in Asia at [shoplink 53614 ebay]Taku (Click here)[/shoplink] and in US at BHphoto (no preorder yet).
via DC.watch.
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Too bad my bank account doesn’t agree 😀
Make that two Jeffs. ?
yeah, I want this but I can’t see myself paying for it. It’s not like it’s too expensive for what it is, it’s just too expensive for me personally. If I made a living exclusively off photos and I had an application for this lens, I’d get it.
Hmmmm….hmmmm….this is tempting……..hmmmmmmm……:-)
Hmmmmmm?
Will this lens have an image circle that covers super 35mm?
It’s wise to wait for reviews for the lens before going to it .
Personally I like this lens but will no rush to it , still prefer to wait & see .
If you can translate:
http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/lens_review/20150611_706326.html
f/2.8 seems the best for center to corner sharpness
Pixel peeping on their sample shots, I see some really weird stuff there. Either the lens has some seriously funky field curvature, or they had a messed up copy of the lens, or they missed focus a bit.
On second series of shots, at f/0.95, lower right corner is sharp, but the rest of the bottom is soft as hell, at f/2, the bottom edge is sharp at around 1/4 and 3/4 of the width, and right corner, with the centre part and the other corner soft.
There are also weird blotches of softness in the first series of samples as well, around halfway from the centre.
It’ll be interesting to see if this behaviour pops up in more reviews.
But even if this is inherent to the lens, I think it would do the trick for me (night-time photography and time lapse), as I’d crop the top and bottom edge along with extreme corners.
And on personal experience: distortion seems very well handled, it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a very low number. Vignetting is clearly visible at f/0.95 but no one would expect otherwise. CA disappoints me a bit, clear red/blue lines visible all over the frame at higher contrast areas.
$1100…(free $75 B+W Clear Nano, overnight delivery)….hmmmm….hmmmm… 🙂
This lens was announced last September. I have been getting notifications from B&H that there is no word on the status of availability or price since then. Every week I get the email. I just checked their website and it says the same thing. Not shipping, not even priced here in New York.
I just got my tracking from cameraquest
Me too! …but the Nano Clear is on Back-Order 🙁
I better use my lens carefully until the filter arrives.
Wow…actually those shots look quite awful! I think it may be user error of some sort or shutter serious shutter shock..There is something not right there…I think those images are not representative of this lens.